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roystgnr comments on The AI design space near the FAI [draft] - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Dmytry 18 March 2012 10:29AM

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Comment author: roystgnr 19 March 2012 09:00:01PM 1 point [-]

Evolution of social primates was absolutely not a process "without a slightest trace of friendliness". The results aren't ideal (men's altruism levels depend on whether there's an attractive woman watching?) but they're not arbitrary.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2012 09:36:22PM 0 points [-]

Still, it's not "by design", but more of a miracle.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 May 2012 03:39:36PM 1 point [-]

Morality comes from math-structure; is it a miracle that the math-structure had those properties? What caused the math-structure? Where is the miraculous optimization coming from? Where do we end up when we seek whence ad infinitum? (How might an atheist answer metaphysical questions like these ones, in principle?)